Davison CE High School for Girls [email protected] www.davison.w-sussex.sch.co.uk Whole School You are warmly invited to FODS (Friends of Davison School) AGM ~ 6.30pm on Tuesday 12 November in The Refectory. This is an opportunity for you to hear first- hand about the fantastic work of FODS (our school PTA) and how their fund- 019 2 raising efforts greatly benefit our school. If you would like to attend the AGM, please email [email protected] stating how many seats you would like to reserve. FODS is a registered charity and we are always looking for ber parents/carers to join the team, whatever year group your daughter may be in. If you would like further information, please speak to any of the team at the AGM or email our Community Manager, Nimie Bunyard. 8 Octo Our talented Year 7 choir will be taking part in Worthing Sings Live on Wednesday 6 November ~ organised by West Sussex Music, the show features musical performances from secondary schools across Worthing and is an exciting evening of entertainment, including a massed choir, individual school performances and a fabulous student band from Northbrook MET. Tickets Tuesday can be purchased through the Worthing Theatres’ website: https://worthingtheatres.co.uk/show/worthing-sings-live/ 2 Our Drama Department is producing A Shakespearean Evening this term, with two abridged versions of Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream being performed by Year 10 and Year 11 students. More details to follow! The Governing Body of Davison CE High School advertised three vacancies for Parent Governors this term. We are pleased to announce that three applications were received and we warmly welcome Mrs R Sinha, Cllr D Smith and Ms L Monger to the Governing Body. Mrs Sinha and Cllr Smith both have a daughter in Year 7 and Ms Monger has a daughter in Year 11. I am sure you will join with us in wishing them every success in this role and give them your support. Monday 14 October to Friday 18 October is Music Charity week, organised by the Music Prefects. There will be several arent Bulletin No. events happening during the week, including Karaoke at P lunchtimes, a cake sale and an Acoustic Concert on Friday 18 October at 6pm in the Drama Studio. Tickets for the concert will be priced at £2 each and are available from the Music and Drama office. Page 1 of 12 We would like to congratulate the successful Year 10 students who will participate in the 2019-20 Young Enterprise Company programme following their impressive presentations in front of our ‘Dragons Den’ panel. SOS Scrunchies company members: Emma Phillips, Tayyibah Ali, Sarah Jane Holden, Niamh Macdonald, Poppy Trenerry-Dalziel, Mia Koszel and Safaa Sayied KarmaKandle company members: Mecaila Almoguerra, Nuha Sikder, Beth Williams, Paige Bashford, Maxeen Elamparo, Saleha Uddin and Maisie Podesta Sew Retro company members: Lois Kerr, Yohansa Bandaranayake, Ella Hall, Sumayyah Nawab, Toma Miksaite, Eleanor Berney, Holly Lee, Daisy Saunders, Daisy Crossa and Kathryn Silk Please join with us in wishing them the best of luck for the year ahead! Izzy Doick (Year 11) is a member of a youth dance company, Ceyda Tanc Youth Dance, who were selected to represent South East England at the U.Dance 2019 national festival. As part of the festival, the company of young dancers were able to meet and work with several world renowned dancers and choreographers. Sir Richard Alston was so impressed with the dancers’ performance that he personally invited the company to perform alongside his professional company as part of their tour at The Theatre Royal, Brighton. This is a huge honour and we wish Izzy every success. Tuesday 8 October 2019 Congratulations to Ella Humphrey (Year 2 11) who was selected to play for Wales U17’s in a UEFA Qualifying Tournament in Denmark at the end of September – Ella played the position of striker against Denmark, Russia and Macedonia. Overall the team came joint second with Denmark. (Ella is pictured in the back row, 2nd left.) Congratulations to Hannah Keating and Lexie Collins (both in 8 Pink) who won Gold and Silver in the Sussex Gymnastics Championships, on 22 September 2019. Hannah and Lexie competed in the Modified 4 and Modified 5 '4 piece' sections respectively. Well done girls! Parent Bulletin No. Well done to our PE Students of the Month (September): Olanna Proctor-Mitchell (Year 7), Amalie Citrone (Year 8), Georgia Goldman (Year 9), Grace Took (Year 10) and Rachel Snow (Year 11) ~ students are voted for by the whole of our PE Department and the criteria includes 100% effort, excellent timekeeping, keenness to learn, full engagement and extra-curricular attendance. Page 2 of 12 Many congratulations to Emma Phillips (Year 10) who has won a national poetry competition! Emma was one of only five winners from 8,000 entries in the Young Writers Poetry Escape Competition, with her poem ‘Red Runs Red’. The Judges commented that Emma clearly has a talent for writing. We look forward to reading more of your work Emma! Congratulations to the Top Ten Accelerated Readers who have gained the most points for the month of September ~ Anya Bates (7 Yellow), Gabriella Nisbet (8 Purple), Lerryn Bant (9 Red), Millie Porter (9 White), Netanya Cheyne Retardo 2019 (8 Purple), Madison Bibby (8 Purple), Olanna Procter-Mitchell (7 Yellow), Francesca Evans-Jones (9 White), Amelie Butler (9 Purple) and Estella Pettet (9 Pink). tober c Students who enter our Science Creative Writing Competition have the opportunity to take part in a writing workshop, led by award-winning children’s 8 O author Nikki Sheehan on 16 October! Students were invited to write about one of four important scientists/mathematicians (Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing, Rosalind Franklin or Katherine Johnson) and present their ideas on how we could do more in school to raise knowledge and awareness of that person and their work. This will be the inaugural event in our newly renovated LRC and we are Tuesday really looking forward to reading the students’ brilliant ideas and bringing them to life! Closing date for entry is 4pm tomorrow. 2 On 26 September, we celebrated European Day of Languages by dressing up in the colour of a European flag or as a theme and by sampling European food throughout the day. We learnt all about the importance of speaking a modern foreign language, by promoting the rich linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe. We also launched many competitions for every year group, as follows: Year 7: Poster competition: ‘Why learn a Language?’: Deadline: 25 October Parent Bulletin No. Year 8: ‘Eurovision contest’: Deadline: 25 October Year 9: ‘European Bake off’: Deadline: last Friday, 4 October Years 10 and 11: ‘European Day of Languages T-shirt Contest’: Deadline: 25 October We are very much looking forward to receiving students’ submissions. Page 3 of 12 We would like to thank you for your support of our recent fundraising events: Once again the Davison Family did a fantastic job of supporting the ’Shoe Box Appeal’ for the charity Link to Hope. Students, staff, parents and carers worked together to create an outstanding 145 gift boxes filled with essential items, which will be distributed to needy families and elderly folk in Eastern Europe. Thank you to everyone who donated items. ber 2019 towards this worthy appeal. Pictured above are Lisa (CEO) and Tracey from Link to Hope. 8 Octo The Gold Family organised a week of amazing fundraising events in aid of Macmillan Cancer Research for all at Davison, including ‘Pin the Moustache on the Teacher’ and ‘soak Mr Southgate’ (see right)! The week culminated in Tuesday the ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ on Friday 27 September. With the support of the Senior and Community Prefect Teams, over £230 was 2 raised at the Coffee Morning! Overall, an amazing £461.06 was raised during the week. A big thank you to everyone who donated cakes and muffins and thank you, too, for allowing your daughter to buy a sweet treat that day! The Orange Family will be raising money for their chosen charity, The Little Princess Trust, this week! The charity provides real hair wigs to children and young people with hair loss, and funds vital research into childhood cancer. Your daughter may be interested in attending one of the following career talks: Parent Bulletin No. Tuesday 22 October ~ applying for medicine Thursday 24 October in AR4 ~ King.com Ltd, the makers of Candy Crush, on Games Design Wednesday 13 November ~ International Baccalaureate Page 4 of 12 To support our GCSE Media Studies course, we took 15 Year 11 students to The Shard, in London, to get some experience in a global advertising agency ~ Jellyfish ~ as part of the national Advertising Unlocked. Our students worked alongside Year 13 students from another school. They were given talks by industry professionals and given a chance to respond to a brief by creating a treatment for 2019 an advertising campaign featured on Social Media. Olivia Heep commented: ‘I gained an insight into the different social media platforms and how they can be used to help promote certain products. Social media has several negative connotations, but at Advertising Unlocked they explained that social media has so many purposes, most of which we benefit from every day. We went on to create a presentation about how we would advertise online about a new app/clothes line we were planning on making. We were given a brief to follow 8 October and our aim was to include as much as we had learnt about the online world, within the time we had been there, and how we would make our new clothing line known to as many people as possible.